Lynn Barber

Lynn Barber (born 22 May 1944) is a British journalist, currently writing for The Sunday Times.

Barber is from Bagshot, Surrey. She attended Lady Eleanor Holles School and studied English Language and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford.^[1]

Barber worked for Penthouse magazine for seven years, then for the Sunday Express, The Independent on Sunday, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Observer from 1996 to 2009.^[2] Best known for her interviews, she was once quoted by Will Self as describing her method as "start[ing] ... from a position of really disliking people, and then compel[ling] them to win you over."^[3]

Barber has won five British press awards. Her books include two collections of interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber, a sex book How to Improve Your Man in Bed, and a survey of Victorian popular natural history writers, The Heyday of Natural History.

In 2006, Barber was one of the judges for the Turner Prize and wrote an article in The Observer critical of some aspects of the judging process.^[4] She currently appears on TV in Grumpy Old Women.

Barber's autobiography, An Education (a memoir), was published by Penguin UK in June 2009. Part of it has been made into a film, with a script written by Nick Hornby, and released in October 2009.

It was announced in September 2009 that Barber will return to The Sunday Times later in the year writing for its magazine.^[2]

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